Another long travel day lay ahead of us & it was also our final day of the tour. Our first stop of the day was at Devils Marbles. Many moons ago a volcano erupted & spewed out lots of rocks, which over time have eroded & formed spherical rocks. We strolled around & climbed over several of the rocks & took some cool photos. Your options are fairly limited when walking around some large stones!! Next we headed to Wycliffe Wells, which is the se...

St. Patrick's Day (or St. Paula's day for Miss Etherington) usually means lots of Guiness for us two. However, being stuck in the a******* of nowhere raised a few problems in doing this. Our first stop of the day was Larrimah. Thankfully one of the few buildings in this exceptionally small settlement was the Pink Panther Pub. So despite the fact it was only 9:30am, we cracked open our first beer of the day, served to us by a big scary biker dude who opened ou...

Rather than giving ourselves a lie-in, we had booked to start our Red Rocket tour from Darwin to Alice Springs that morning. So around 6am we boarded our bus & met another new group of folk. Unfortunately for the two Yorkshire lasses, they had booked on the same tour, so they had unwittedly become our new tour buddies. Poor them! We met our new driver called 'Doc' (he looked like a younger version of Christopher Lloyd in 'Back to the Future') who would be dri...

Things kicked off around 7am this morning with everyone looking as if they had had as much sleep as an insomniac at a rock gig. We headed to Nourlangie Rock for a 1 hour hike to look at various paintings on the rock walls that had been left by Aboriginis many moons ago. We then headed to Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre, which was a further insight into the culture & beliefs of various local tribes. That afternoon we were booked on to a river cruise that...

Today saw a return to the early starts that we thought we had been banished in Asia. We started our two day tour of Kakadu National Park by getting our bus at 6am. There we met our new friends for the next two days, these included 2 Yorkshire lasses (Sally & Amylou) who live not too far from where my Mum grew up. Our first stop in Kakadu was to the Bowali Visitor Centre, where Graham (a local Aborigini & former park ranger) told us about the park, loca...